Green Pastures of Sumba Island

SUMBA Island is famous for the beautiful horses and green pastures. Smooth asphalt road from the airport Tambolaka to Waikabubak, the capital of West Sumba, East Nusa Tenggara, our eyes are pampered with the prairie landscape and green plants, combined with a herd of buffalo and horses shepherd by his master. Do not be surprised if the car suddenly had to stop because there was a buffalo or a horse across the street.

Unfortunately, modern life is only a stop on the highway connecting the kabupaten. If we go into deeper territory, which is found traditional houses and walled thatched bambang. Under the house, people keep livestock-cattle, like pigs, goats, and chickens. Sumba society often called the tower house.

Public life was still simple compounded by a lack of clean water facilities. Clean water supplies are distributed by trucks that come from the district capital to rural areas. Dozens of jerry cans of water line in each reservoir.

Parents, youth, and children carrying jerry cans full of clean water, walked over to their respective homes. The situation appeared in parts of Southwest Sumba.

Social level of a family can be seen from the number of cattle owned. Although the condition is still houses a traditional, daily life is poor, but a family is considered wealthy if they have a lot of cattle.

Sumba community animal horn used to store the cut in party events such as weddings and traditional ceremonies.

For example, a house in District Loli, West Sumba, full of buffalo horn. Hundreds of buffalo horns mounted on the house of a family. From the number of mounted buffalo horn, society considers that the owner of the house is rich.